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question: as a uk user wanting to buy from amazon us, would i be able to buy myself an amazon us gift cert and apply it to my account to avoid doing the whole billing address shenanigans?

I doubt it - basically, it looks for a billing address on your account which is in the US (and a proper address). You can get a legit address from somewhere like Borderlinx if you want to be completely 'honest' about it - but otherwise all you do is

a - add a card
b - add the billing address for that card
You've probably done that already
c - add another billing address in the US
d - buy games...

Remember that every transaction is done separately for DD games tho - and there may be fees from your card for the $->£ thing

Without wishing to alarm people, after using Gamefly for the first time a few days ago to buy Skyrim, I was contacted by my bank about suspicious transactions. Amounts were debited to "President Obama" and "Facebook.com". I immediately cancelled the card.

I hadn't used my card at any other "new" places, so I am immediately suspicious of Gamefly .. although I have no evidence.

There are folks, like me who can't use gamefly, GMG is a good alternative.

You can also pay in pounds on gamersgate by manually changing the .com in the address bar to .co.uk. UK prices are generally a lot cheaper than those for mainland europe. Saved me quite some money since gmg started to force me to pay in euros here in germany. Don't know if they do the same for the Netherlands though.